Admiral Sir William Fanshawe Martin, 4th Baronet, (5 December 180124 March 1895) was a Royal Navy officer. As a commander, he provided valuable support to British merchants at Callao in Peru in the early 1820s during the Peruvian War of Independence. He had two brothers, one of whom became Admiral Sir Henry Martin. He joined the fifth-rate HMS Alceste on the East Indies Station in January 1816 after which he transferred to the yacht HMS Prince Regent in 1820 and then to the fifth-rate HMS Glasgow in the Mediterranean Fleet. He went on to be commodore commanding the Channel Squadron with his broad pennant in HMS Prince Regent in December 1849. Martin became Admiral Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard, hoisting his flag in the first-rate HMS St Vincent in November 1853. he became First Naval Lord in the Second Derby–Disraeli ministry in March 1858. and promoted to full admiral on 14 November 1863, he succeeded to the baronetcy on 4 December 1863: this had been conferred on his grandfather, but passed to Martin upon the death of his cousin, Sir Henry, the 3rd Baronet. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in October 1866 and was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 24 May 1873. He died at his home at Upton Grey near Winchfield on 24 March 1895.
- Caroline Matin
- Grace Martin
- Harriette Martin
- Georgiana Martin
References
Sources
- William Loney RN Career History
Further reading
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